7 USC § 6941a - Coordinator for Chronically Underserved Rural Areas

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title: "7 USC § 6941a - Coordinator for Chronically Underserved Rural Areas"
title_number: 7
title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
section_number: "6941a"
section_name: "Coordinator for Chronically Underserved Rural Areas"
chapter_number: 98
chapter_name: "DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE REORGANIZATION"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "RURAL ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 110–234, title XIV, § 14218, May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1482; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XIV, § 14218, June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2244.)"
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# § 6941a. Coordinator for Chronically Underserved Rural Areas

**(a)** **Establishment** The Secretary of Agriculture shall establish a Coordinator for Chronically Underserved Rural Areas (in this section referred to as the “Coordinator”), to be located in the Rural Development Mission Area.

**(b)** **Mission** The mission of the Coordinator shall be to direct Department of Agriculture resources to high need, high poverty rural areas.

**(c)** **Duties** The Coordinator shall consult with other offices in directing technical assistance, strategic regional planning, at the State and local level, for developing rural economic development that leverages the resources of State and local governments and non-profit and community development organizations.

**(d)** **Authorization of appropriations** There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums as necessary to carry out this section for fiscal years 2008 through 2012.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 110–234, title XIV, § 14218, May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1482; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XIV, § 14218, June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2244.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

and  enacted identical sections.  was repealed by .

Section was enacted as part of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, and not as part of the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994, which in part comprises this chapter.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

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